Based in Kells, Co Meath, Woodview Construction is a company which prides itself on the quality and efficiency of its work. Building Ireland spoke with its Managing Director Eoin Dolan to hear more about this thriving company and what he feels sets it apart from the competition.
It’s 17 years since Eoin Dolan set-up Woodview Construction and business has seldom been better for the Co Meath-based company.
Operating with six full-time staff and around 25 regular subcontractors, it’s a venture which provides a comprehensive range of construction services to its commercial and domestic clients.
Woodview Construction, which also has three vans, a lorry and a jeep on the road full-time, carries out projects which range from general maintenance works to complete factory builds all throughout-out Co Meath and its surrounding areas.
Building Ireland touched base with its owner and founder Eoin Dolan recently to find out about the projects his venture is immersed in at the moment and its overall hopes going forward.
“We’d be doing a wide range of work right now. We’d be doing a good bit of commercial stuff as well,” he stated.
“We’d do a bit of shop refit out there for likes a Gala, and we’d be doing one-off shops. We’ve done a few at least, we’ve done pubs too, and that’s the kind of a commercial end of it that we’d do.
“Then we’d be doing an awful lot of residential work in Dublin there, like renovations and extensions. We’d be doing a few one-off private houses; we really only started doing the private houses in the last couple of years now. We weren’t really doing too many of them.”
Indeed, the majority of the Woodview Construction’s work these days is based around Castleknock and Lucan, as well as the southside area and inner city.
Right now, business is flourishing for the company and its project books are full up for the next couple of months.
“It’s just hectic now at the minute. There’s plenty of work on, it’s just getting quality staff is kind of a problem now if you want to grow any bigger,” said Eoin.
“I don’t particularly want to grow any bigger now, I’m happy enough the way we are. But if you want to grow any bigger, that can bring its on headaches by itself.”
It’s all a far cry from where Eoin himself started out in the construction industry many moons ago.
Having served his time as a plasterer, things took a turn in a different direction for the Meath man when the recession of ‘07 hit.
After that, he made a decision to stay at home rather than emigrate and set-up his own contracting firm and grew things from there.
Today, Woodview Construction is a company renowned for the quality within its work, effectively managing all aspects of their client’s build project, from design stages through to completion, eliminating the need for multiple points of contact.
These days the projects seem to be coming thick and fast for the business, according to Eoin, particularly when it comes to extension works.
“We’d be doing a wide range of extensions at the moment,” he said. “We’d have a lot of extensions in around Dublin, Lucan, Castleknock and we have a couple of private jobs done around Kells with private houses.
“We’d be doing a lot of maintenance and dental practices and play schools. We’d have contracts for that.”
He added: “It’s just the usual. There’s probably another 15 or 16 extensions to get done before the year is out and then a couple of private houses in Navan.”
So, all of that considered, the burning question is what has been the secret behind the success of Woodview Construction to date?
How has a small start-up, born in the midst of a harsh economic recession for the construction industry, grown into a thriving business with an excellent reputation amongst clients and the ability to take on projects of all sizes?
For Eoin, so much of the undoubted success to date has come down to the impeccable service he and his team provide customers.
“I think it’s because we’d have a good reputation for finishing jobs well and we’d always go back if there were any snags,” said the Managing Director.
“We’d always sort it out, there’d be never an issue that way with us. We’d never really advertise now, ever, to be honest, only in any local charity magazines. That’s the only thing we’d ever do because people would be ringing us for a few pound.
“We’d never really advertise – we don’t even put signs outside houses. We’d have good reputation in Dublin and it would be word of mouth from houses to houses.
“We keep everything right and clean and I think we keep jobs fairly clean afterwards. For most of the jobs now, people want high-end finishes. To be honest, there’s no bother doing high-end finishes if people want them.”
Looking at the months ahead for Woodview Construction, its founder is keen for things to stay on the same course in which they have been over these past 24 months or so.
“I hope it keeps as good to us as it was in the last two years. We’re quite happy with the way things are going here,” Eoin concluded.
Fantastic to hear.
Woodview Construction
Billywoow,
Moynalty,
Kells,
Co Meath
Mobile: 087 792 0898
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This article was published in Building Ireland Magazine, August, Vol 11 No 9
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